Canonical Voiceshttp://voices.canonical.comCanonical VoicesThu, 03 Apr 2014 15:46:53 -0000Canonical Design Blog: Submit your apps now – App Showdown closes 9th Aprilhttp://insights.ubuntu.com/news/submit-your-apps-now-app-showdown-closes-9th-april/<p dir="ltr">Have you submitted your app for the App Showdown contest? With just under one week to go, there’s still time to <a href="http://developer.ubuntu.com/2014/04/submitting-your-app-for-the-app-showdown">enter</a> and have the opportunity to win a Nexus/Meizu device with your app running on the handset. Deadline for submissions is Wednesday 9th April, 2014.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Here are the details once again:</p>
<p dir="ltr">The contest is open to everyone. The four dedicated categories that you can enter:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">QML: original apps written in QML or those with a combination of QML and JavaScript/C++</p>
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<p dir="ltr">HTML5: original apps written using web technologies, be it pure HTML (and CSS/JavaScript) or with platform access using Apache Cordova</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Ported: apps ported from another platform, regardless of the technology used</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Chinese apps: apps in this category will have to be original and specific to China and the Chinese culture. They will be judged by three native experts in our jury.</p>
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<p>To enter the competition and get further information <a href="http://developer.ubuntu.com/showdown/">click here</a>.</p>
<p>Winning entries will be announced by Canonical once the judging process has been completed – anticipated to be end of April 2014. Good luck!</p>nospam@nospam.com (Canonical)Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:46:53 -0000http://insights.ubuntu.com/news/submit-your-apps-now-app-showdown-closes-9th-april/app showdownchinadevelopersnewsphonesmartphonetabletCanonical Blog: Canonical – Dell launching Ubuntu in China in 1,000+ storeshttp://blog.canonical.com/2013/09/05/canonical-dell-launching-ubuntu-in-china-in-1000-stores/<p><img class="alignnone" alt="" src="http://blog.canonical.com/wp-content/uploads//Dell-branding-in-stores_enhanced.jpg" width="596" height="auto" /></p>
<p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-016128e7-ef05-504e-d772-5c5e19f4a377">Over the next few weeks Chinese customers will be able to find more ways to purchase Dell computers pre-loaded with Ubuntu throughout even more cities! With significant success to date, Dell China and Canonical will work closely together to significantly increase the the number of stores selling Ubuntu based PC’s in the Chinese retail market.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Dell and Canonical will jointly extend across Tier 1 thru’ Tier 6 Chinese cities with a range of hardware pre-loaded with the Chinese language version of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The original stores have proven so successful that the companies have agreed to expand to beyond 1,000 outlets..</p>
<p>Incredibly exciting to see that Chinese consumers now have the opportunity to acquire a large range of Dell computers with Ubuntu!</p>nospam@nospam.com (Maria Bonnefon)Thu, 05 Sep 2013 17:54:29 -0000http://blog.canonical.com/2013/09/05/canonical-dell-launching-ubuntu-in-china-in-1000-stores/chinadellpartners